Overview
- The Israeli songwriter and poet died Wednesday, April 1, in Jerusalem after a battle with cancer, her son Yonatan confirmed in a Facebook post.
- The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music released a memorial message that noted her violin on Born to Run and her lasting impact on Israeli culture.
- In the studio she played the signature violin intro to Jungleland and provided uncredited, layered vocals on 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) and Incident on 57th Street when a church choir did not arrive.
- She performed live with the E Street Band at roughly 38 shows from October 1974 through March 1975, starting at New York’s Avery Fisher Hall and ending at Washington’s DAR Constitution Hall, with a standout duet on Bob Dylan’s I Want You.
- After returning to Israel she wrote hit songs for Yehudit Ravitz, Rita, Gidi Gov, and Rami Kleinstein, earned ACUM and Erik Einstein prizes, published two novels, and penned the screenplay for the 1996 crime film Kesher Dam.